I saw the Washington Post headline for a series on the world food crisis — the first article, “Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice” — on the way home tonight. The video, about two families in Mauritania trying to cope on the edge of a food disaster, left me in dread and asking “What would […]
Yesterday I went to the Capital City Market (a.k.a. the Florida [Avenue] Market) on a tour by Richard Layman, Ken Firestone and Elise Bernard on a tour sponsored by Cultural Tourism DC. (I’m the fifth figure from the left — brown polo shirt and jeans — in this photo.) This is a wholesale market with […]
In addition to other life choices, I want to eat more locally. These days, a lot of people do. But I know that if I shop at a farmer’s market, I’m likely to be offered selection of expensive greens (that aren’t filling), breads and soups (where do the raw materials come from?) or meat (which […]
To make the most impact, I give to only a few charitable organizations, and one is the Friends of the World Food Program. The World Food Program has a good history of food relief, with an excellent record of efficiency and the capacity to make a real difference. The Friends is the US support affiliate.
With […]
The pressure on world grain production — crop failures, diversion of biofuel production — has created huge price increases and I have a hard time imagining how millions of the world’s poorest people will manage to eat when they get priced out of the cheapest food available.
Point one: Cyclone and storm damage leaves Bangladesh’s […]
You could use the Calorie King toolbar to look up the nutritional information of food — I record everything I eat — but I think that takes up too much monitor space.
Instead, I added Calorie King as a search engine in the pull-down search engine bar at the upper right hand side of my browser. […]
I feel like Google owns me some times, but that’s OK right now. I’m try to lose weight and my current goal is to drop 16 pounds by the last day of March. Sure, I record my food intake, weight and measurements on a Google Documents spreadsheet. (I have also extended document viewing permissions to […]
I am a tea drinker in a nation of coffee drinkers, and I need your help to clean up my act.
I am on the hunt for a decent supplier of loose black tea — fairly traded and preferably organic — but not stupefyingly expensive. While fair-trade coffee can be had from Equal Exchange and other […]
When I lose excess weight successfully, it isn’t because I found a must-do diet or skinny-sinful recipes. It’s because I have a more conscious understanding about how I relate to food.
It’s OK to be a little hungry sometimes. I’m safe. I’m not going to starve. (Millions of others should be so [...]
I was slacking off writing this little article on eating at General Assembly, but the Rev. Victoria Weinstein (Beauty Tips for Ministers) shared her story of doughnuts at a recent preaching conference and the Weight of the World blog appeared: that sparked me in to action. One lesson is that you have to be clever […]
